If your surfer and you are making a porn collection, videos will take you TBs to hava descent one but photos will consume far less space on your hard drive. Also pics has a different "taste" than the videos

of course they do!

What do you mean by "extremely disproportionate amount of that traffic is mobile"? Do you mean lots of mobile users view pictures?

Fantasy beats reality every time.

From a video everything is there for you to follow but limited to the scene script. From a picture you can imagine all sorts of things.
Hearing someone's voice can ruin things :(

exactly! this is the main advantage pics have over clips. A pic gives you the starting point of a fantasy, clips push you down a route already made.

Which is a problem with some videos. 5 minutes in and the model is so obviously fake it's a turn off. But a picture is rarely that disappointing.


Naked, not talking and holding a cold pint of beer. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Right, thats why the EXGF and Stolen Pics sites sell like hot cakes. :error


Almost all of my sites are PHOTOS only, mostly user submitted, members love it and rebill. While I read most of you saying how bad business is, mine is kicking ass and has been for years. Maybe if some of you stopped thinking you know what your members want, without really knowing, you would be doing well too.

I keep stats on everything. Every photo, every gallery, every model. Even the video sites I have, stats on every file. I can tell you exactly what my members want to see more of and I dont pull it out of my ass.

lol you rock!

yes, they do :thumbsup

Pictures are the cornerstone of our industry... If not people wouldn't bother to dress up their thumbs ever on galleries and we would just have tours full of vids.. They sell better than vids do if you get the right shots...

Another nod for yes. A customer joined one of my pay sites ($30 USD) just to download one set of photos for a specific model. After he got it, he wrote me to say bye and asked if he could be notified of future sets of the model. That's just one example.

High quality photos will stand on their own.

Yes, any extra features for surfers is an HUGE bonus. do not ever think that small features will not make a difference. it is the small features that make all the difference.

if you arent going to provide them they are going to go somewhere else to view them. the more times they go somewhere else the more chance that site can add features to match or beat yours.

the internet is a game of numbers, the longer a surfer spends on your site the more likely they are to buy. or the more likely they are to come back and buy in the future.

if you take your traffic seriously it should be a fulltime job updating features.

small things like pics/vids/cams and the way they can access and organize each of them makes a huge difference.

the majority of major porn buyers are collectors. what do collectors love? they love CONTENT. content is the king of the internet whether porn or mainstream.

the more content you have and the easier it is to access and organize that content the better your site will do.

it sounds simple but few sites (especially) adult sites work on this. they are caught in the stone age and this is why surfers are leaving in droves.

the huge, over used imaged layouts are dead. it is time to move ahead and start understanding what web 2.0 is really about or your sites will be slowly left in the dust. (not pointed to anyone in particular)

And maybe making a sandwich for afterwards.

Compared with my other sites that have mostly video content, the couple of sites I have that are solely image content have a large percentage of mobile traffic. One coed site I have is about 40% mobile. That site wasn't built for mobile users but it's still very popular with them.

I still promote picture content!

Oh shit I checked on this thread a few hours after I posted it and no much movement and now I come back and its 2 pages long.